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Number   :  5203
Date     :  2003-08-03
Author   :  Garry Deane
Subject  :  Re: once more: ntfs vs fat32
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--- In xxcopy@yahoogroups.com, "Virg"  wrote:
>
> Am I correct in thinking that a computer with Win XP can
> read and write to a fat32 disk but not vice versa? That is,
> a Win98 SE computer can't read or write to an ntfs disk?

That's correct if the NTFS drive is installed directly in the
w98 PC although there are programs that will provide NTFS
support to w98 e.g. from www.sysinternals.com.

The original poster was referring to an NTFS drive on an XP
system which was connected via a network and mapped drive
to a FAT32 drive on the w98 system. In that situation, except
for minor differences between the file systems, there's no
problem reading/writing the drives in either direction. The
OS for each PC takes care of the low level access to the
hardware and file system at its own end and translates the
file accesses into hardware neutral messages that are passed
across the network.

Garry



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